paulhigh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I consider the routine use of Puppet to hunt for a 5-3 fit when
> responder has no 4 card major to be ludicrous -- it vastly increases
> the frequency of 2C, giving fourth hand an easy lead-directing double.
> When he doesn't double, his partner can guess to lead something other
> than clubs (when he has no obvious lead.) In other words, this seems
> to cancel out or even overwhelm the gains from concealing opener's
> four card majors. Although a 5-3 fit is probably better than notrump
> in general, it is not clear that the advantage is worth dragging
> through a series of artificial bids to uncover.
Yes. I disagree (at least at our level) on the hazard of the
lead-directing
double as I've rarely encountered it. I suspect that playing with
experts,
its going to make quite a difference.
I really have to start recording the hands we do this with, though, and
comparing our results to the NT bidders. The huge drawback of PS is that
by the time we've got to 4M, opponents have a complete description of our
hands, and it's not clear to me either whether the advantage is worth what
we reveal.
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